Parse a repository metadata PACAKGES*
file
Usage
parse_packages(path, type = NULL)
Arguments
- path
Path to the PACKAGES*
file.
- type
Type of the file. By default it is determined automatically.
Types:
Value
A data frame, with all columns from the file at path
.
Details
Non-existent, unreadable or corrupt PACKAGES
files with trigger an
error.
PACKAGES*
files do not usually declare an encoding, but nevertheless
parse_packages()
works correctly if they do.
Note
parse_packages()
cannot currently read files that have very many
different fields (many columns in the result data frame). The current
limit is 1000. Typical PACKAGES
files contain less than 20 field
types.